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Re: Stale external URL in doc?

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>

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From: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>, Kyotaro Horiguchi <horikyota.ntt@gmail.com>, PostgreSQL Developers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Date: 2020-07-09T15:54:53Z
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On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 3:52 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> writes:
> > As a short term fix we should either a) remove these links completely or
> b)
> > link to archived copies of the pages on archive.org; or c) find a more
> > appropriate pages to link to.  A quick search didn't turn up anything I
> would
> > prefer for (c), and I'm not sure what he legality of linking to a cached
> copy
> > is, so I would advocate for (a).
>
> +1.  It should have been obvious just from the spelling of this URL that
> it wasn't intended to be a long term stable location.  Digging in the
> git history shows we've already updated it twice, and I wonder how many
> changes there were that we didn't notice.
>
> Just reverting bbd3bdba3 seems appropriate to me.
>

+1.

If we want to keep a set of such links, probably the wiki is a better place
as more people can easily fix them there.

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Commits

  1. Fix conversion table generator scripts.

  2. doc: Refresh more URLs in the docs

  3. Doc: update or remove dead external links.

  4. Rewrite the perl scripts to produce our Unicode conversion tables.